18 March, 2026
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Mayor Stewart’s 2025 Annual Message: Mayor Stewart Comes Up Short Again: Presentation #37.

All of our recent flooding updates and narratives with photos, video interviews, documents, etc. are published on-line in theย New Britain Progressiveโ€™s โ€œFlooding Seriesโ€. Listen to and view our City Council Presentations on the City Web-Siteโ€ฆ Go to newbritainct.gov. Click on government, common council, videos. In December 2023, Mayor Stewart advised us to feel free to […]

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End MAGA Next Year With Necessary Small-D Democratic Reforms

By Tim O’Brien The Trumpster Republicans’ greedy money-grab big bill that takes health care from millions of people to hand vast riches to the already wealthy, among other harms, is only the latest in a string of acts of the bigoted, fascist, militaristic, greedy, corrupt, Project 2025, MAGA administration under the rule of President Donald […]

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New Britain Public Library Hosts Program on the Great Red Sox-Yankees Rivalry

The New Britain Public Library is featuring, “Red Sox-Yankees: The Greatest Rivalry in Sports,” saying, “This fun program hosted by award-winning sportswriter, baseball beat writer and book author Marty Gitlin.” The Library says that the program, highlighting, “the most intense rivalry in American sports – maybe the world,” is to feature, “videos of the biggest […]

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How Mamdani’s Message Trumped the Establishment in NYC

Back To The Future: “Affordability” Wins on the Lower East Side and Elsewhere by John McNamara Down on the Lower East Side of Manhattan on Grand Street the words of Sidney Hillman are inscribed in stone outside the coop complex named for the legendary labor leader. โ€œWe want a better America,โ€ the quote goes, โ€œan […]

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Community Birthday Cookout Celebrates Life of Katherine Colon – Continues Justice for Katherine Campaign

Family and friends of Katherine Colon and other activists held a special Birthday Community Cookout in Central Park on Sunday, “dedicated to honoring Katherineโ€™s memory through harm reduction, food, love, and meaningful community connections.” The event included food, games and fond remembrances of Colon, along with a continuation of the Justice for Katherine campaign. That […]

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Miss NAM CT Joins Fashion Show Held in Celebration of Juneteenth

Akuchukwu Oputa, Miss NAM CT for 2024-2025, was a part of a fashion show hosted recently celebrating Juneteenth by Gorgy by Candy and its owner Candyce Scott. Oputa said, a New Britain resident, said, As National American Miss Connecticut and a college student studying journalism, walking in this Juneteenth fashion show was more than a […]

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Legislators Praise $2 Million State Brownfield Remediation Grant for Economic Development

Members of the New Britain state legislative delegation applauded Gov Ned Lamont, who recently approved $2 million in Brownfield Remediation and Development Program for New Britain Business Park located at 221 South Street. Rep Dave DeFronzo (D-26) and Rep Manny Sanchez (D-25) praised the allocation for New Britain, part of an overall allocation of $18.8 […]